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Reminder: any drug that gets a lot of hype for "killing cancer in a petri dish" is probably not as useful as you think

It's really easy to kill cancer cells

Napalm kills cancer cells

The far more pertinent question is "does it kill cancer cells while not killing the human the cells are in?"

That's the tricky bit of the whole exercise

@troubleMoney it only took me that long because i was in the middle of typing another toot

@troubleMoney Frankly I'd be scared of cancer cells that DIDN'T react to napalm. Then again, I don't live on the set of Akira so the odds of running into those are pretty slim.

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We found a bacteria that eats pancreatic cancer! And pancreases!

@Roxxie_Riot
:blobthinking: If you can create a secondary pancreas by cloning, you can just destroy the original and implant the cloned one.

Come on, science! Where are those cloned organs?

@troubleMoney

@rick_777 @troubleMoney

What if I make a clone but then I sew my head onto it and then I can share a body with the clone and hate each other
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@troubleMoney A new drug may kill cancer cells in a dish and not work at all in a human. We have a lot of great tools for killing cancer -- in rodents. They work in lab mice or rats buare not effective in humans.t

@BertL those are at least useful for poor little rats with cancer

also significantly closer to what you want than something that just kills the human

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